Nobel Prize in Literature

Swedish engineer Alfred Nobel provided for the establishment of the Nobel Foundation in his will in 1895. Since 1901, it has recognized achievement in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace and economics.

Click here for a list of winners in the literature category from 1901 to the present. Past winners include Octavio Paz, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway and Hermann Hesse.

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